# kaal:position:2026-07-31-6993

**Affirmed position.** Towards Governance and Dispute Resolution for DLT and Smart Contracts presents the following source proposition: As a decentralized system, Digital Ledger Technology (DLT) needs decentralized governance and smart contract dispute resolution. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Proving personal jurisdiction over smart contracting parties by physical presence, domicile or place of business, consent, or minimum contacts becomes impossible, because none of these elements are known of the parties to a smart contract. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

**Status.** affirmed  **Published.** 2026-07-31

**Holds when.**

- The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
- External evidence level: abstract indexed.
- Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
- Primary mapping confidence: 0.5627.
- The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

**Current debate.** Towards Governance and Dispute Resolution for DLT and Smart Contracts: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/4e979f23edf19e6c3c3aba6f6f154bac3ef69e0d

**Extends.** kaal:claim:2992962-013: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2992962-013

**Scholarly basis.** Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992962

**Source PDF sha256.** `80b92e67594394e38af41b769327936833de8e25d6cf3def966a6ba13bc83d17`

**Evidence level.** abstract indexed

**Mapping review tier.** moderate-confidence claim review

**Mapping confidence.** 0.5627  **Mapping ambiguous.** true

**Topics.** law-and-legal-systems, smart-contracts, historical-response, scholarly-literature, semantic-scholar

**Provenance.** Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0006 at https://kaal-signal-desk.wulf577462.chatgpt.site/#review.

**Record type.** This is a dated commentary position that extends a scholarly corpus claim. It is not a verbatim claim extracted from the paper.

**Canonical form.** This markdown file is the canonical hashed representation of the position.